Scirpan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Scirpan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: a-, ge-scirpan. scirpan

Definitions

1 scirpan

p. te. I. to sharpen, whet :-- Scyrpþ acuit, Engl. Stud. ix. 40. Hí hwetton (scyrptun, MS. C. ) tungan heora acuerunt linguam suam. Ps. Spl. 139, 3. Scerptun, Ps. Surt. 139, 4. II. metaph. to make active, arouse :-- Symle hé sceal his hýrmen scyrpan mid manunge tó hláfordes neóde and him eác leánian be ðam ðe hý earnian, Anglia ix. 260, 23.

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚳᛁᚱᛈᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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